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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

Wonderful song. 9/10

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*falls off her virtual chair*

But, Mark, I am pretty sure that was in your "100 Songs I Cannot Stand" list you left on the internet one drunken night...

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my other daughter's signature song

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4/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrelPOP518g

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrelPOP518g

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Too polite to be considered pastiche and too derivative to be judged otherwise. 2/10



The Kinks, being British.

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

Too polite to be considered pastiche and too derivative to be judged otherwise. 2/10

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That's more like it. Welcome back!

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The Kinks, being British.

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Definitely not a side of the British I like, then: 2/10.

Please someone tell me why this song is so popular (it is on the radio atm):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4

It's inoffensive enough, Owl City is just derivative synthpop, heard it all before, 5/10.

Here's a song about vampires.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QstZr...eature=related

Really good stuff 9/10. I may have a new band to check out.

My current obsession:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPPBAIjq2lk

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Originally Posted by toni

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPPBAIjq2lk

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I am not such a big fan of The Doors but quite like this one: 8/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuT...eature=related

Nope, I'm afraid not - that does absolutely nothing for me. 3/10.

Hmm, how about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moOamKxW844

Classic! 8/10 Lizi Minnelli has a great performance :D

I found this song in my playlist just now - I had forgotten all about it:
City to City - the Road Ahead

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Originally Posted by Lokasenna

Nope, I'm afraid not - that does absolutely nothing for me. 3/10.

Hmm, how about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moOamKxW844

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Perhaps I'm wrong, but you appear to have the measure of guitar-strumming pop groups. It's worth remembering, however, that 'Cabaret' is only an American pastiche of 1930s Berlin.

I've just checked some of your other input to this thread and have to admit that I was wrong.

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Originally Posted by Brian Bean

Perhaps I'm wrong, but you appear to have the measure of guitar-strumming pop groups. It's worth remembering, however, that 'Cabaret' is only an American pastiche of 1930s Berlin.

I've just checked some of your other input to this thread and have to admit that I was wrong.

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It's actually a film adaptation of a Broadway musical, which was an adaptation of a play, which was in turn inspired by the short stories of Christopher Isherwood, which were based on his own experiences in Weimar Germany. However, I'm confused what that has to do with the music.

Edit: Song above is a little too Bryan Adamsish for my taste, 3/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGNpRnFNgM

Not bad 8/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K63p...eature=related

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Originally Posted by OrphanPip

It's actually a film adaptation of a Broadway musical, which was an adaptation of a play, which was in turn inspired by the short stories of Christopher Isherwood, which were based on his own experiences in Weimar Germany. However, I'm confused what that has to do with the music.

Edit: Song above is a little too Bryan Adamsish for my taste, 3/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGNpRnFNgM

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It's many years since I read Isherwood's book Goodbye to Berlin which was actually filmed before as 'I am a Camera', based on the play of the same name by John van Druten. Although I have seen the film, I wouldn't say that it was particularly good but I think it gives a more accurate portrayal of 1930s Berlin than Cabaret. The music is incidental to the momentous events that were taking place in Germany at that time and, to my mind, tends to detract from the underlying seriousness of Isherwood's book.

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Originally Posted by Brian Bean

It's many years since I read Isherwood's book Goodbye to Berlin which was actually filmed before as 'I am a Camera', based on the play of the same name by John van Druten. Although I have seen the film, I wouldn't say that it was particularly good but I think it gives a more accurate portrayal of 1930s Berlin than Cabaret. The music is incidental to the momentous events that were taking place in Germany at that time and, to my mind, tends to detract from the underlying seriousness of Isherwood's book.

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I don't think that the music is incidental at all. The songs are not merely standalone performances in the club that's the focus of the plot - they are also adroitly used as oblique commentary on the social and political events that form the backdrop to the story. It's an uncharacteristically subtle technique for a Hollywood musical, and I'd say it's pretty true to Isherwood.

Of course, you might object to the book being taken as the basis for a musical at all - and that's a fair position. But then it wouldn't matter how the music was used - just that it existed.

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

I don't think that the music is incidental at all. The songs are not merely standalone performances in the club that's the focus of the plot - they are also adroitly used as oblique commentary on the social and political events that form the backdrop to the story. It's an uncharacteristically subtle technique for a Hollywood musical, and I'd say it's pretty true to Isherwood.

Of course, you might object to the book being taken as the basis for a musical at all - and that's a fair position. But then it wouldn't matter how the music was used - just that it existed.

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Personally I don't think the subject matter of the book was suited to a musical interpretation which, in my view, was over the top. However, it is only one opinion among many and will no doubt be treated as such.

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Originally Posted by Brian Bean

Perhaps I'm wrong, but you appear to have the measure of guitar-strumming pop groups. It's worth remembering, however, that 'Cabaret' is only an American pastiche of 1930s Berlin.

I've just checked some of your other input to this thread and have to admit that I was wrong.

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Hmm, I seem to have started something here. To be honest, I just pick songs that come into my head, not necessarily stuff I listen to; I mostly listen to classical, which wouldn't really work in a thread like this.

I love the song Cabaret, but mostly because one of the most inspirational figures in my life has a tendency to sing it while she's working or doing chores; I have thus always associated it with her! I haven't actually seen the film at all.